An unusually tasty meringue cake (like many other goodies) appeared in France. Its recipe is quite simple, but the craftsmen have long turned classic meringues into a treat for every taste, adding a ton of all kinds of ingredients to it.
Despite the simplicity of the meringue recipe, its preparation requires compliance with certain rules. First of all, for it you need to choose the freshest eggs. Beat them only in a clean bowl, otherwise you will not achieve the desired consistency of the foam. And sugar in proteins needs to be added very slowly and carefully, otherwise the foam will “sit down”.
Nowadays, the microwave has managed to replace not only the oven, but also the oven. It has long been thought up how to cook meringues in the microwave, and from the resulting goodies make delicious cakes and desserts.
Oven and microwave meringue recipe .
This recipe can be called a classic, but in the end it turns out a delicious treat for tea. For its preparation you will need chicken eggs - 3 pcs. (more precisely, 3 proteins), granulated sugar - 200 g, salt and citric acid.
This meringue recipe in the oven is very simple. Egg whites need to be poured into a deep bowl, add the very drop of salt and 2 tables. l Sahara. Whip all this until a thick foam is obtained, and the volume should increase two times. Then we add the remaining sugar and citric acid gradually there and again carefully beat, because the quality of the meringue depends on it.
Microwave grate should be covered with foil and a little grease. Put a whipped mass on it with a small spoon, leaving a distance between the "drops", because they are a little blurry. And then bake the cakes in the oven for about an hour or in a preheated microwave at t 130 degrees (in time - about 30 minutes). Ready meringues can be eaten like cakes, or you can make a cake out of them, greased with cream. In any case - very tasty.
Meringue with strawberries and cream.
To make this cream and strawberry cake, use the oven-made meringue recipe described above. Try to make cakes with a diameter of 8-10 cm.
Take 250 grams of cream, mix them with 1 table. a spoonful of vanilla sugar. Fill the pastry bag with the mixture and squeeze into the middle of the dried meringues. Wash and cut strawberries into 4 parts. Put a quarter on each cake.
Meringue with coffee and ice cream.
The cake must be prepared in accordance with the first recipe. 1 table. spoon the usual instant coffee pour the same amount of hot water and wait until it cools. 1 cup of fat cream and 3 tables. l beat sugar and mix with a solution of coffee. Place the resulting cream in a pastry bag and squeeze out of it onto cakes. On top of each you need to put on a cherry without a seed (fresh, canned) and a scoop of ice cream.
Meringue with almond and orange.
In addition to the usual meringue ingredients, you will need 1 orange, 2 egg whites, 120 grams of almonds, about 100 grams of icing sugar and lemon zest.
To prepare the almond cream, you need to slightly salt the proteins and beat them, gradually introducing the powder, finely shredded almonds and zest. The resulting mass must be put in the molds (filling them to half), sprinkle with a little flour and put on each cake an orange slice. Bake for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, you need to beat the protein with lemon zest and sugar and, when the almond mass is baked, put a spoonful of protein mass on top of each cake, then put it back into the oven and keep it there until the top layer dries.
Meringue with figs and dates.
This dessert, regardless of whether you take a meringue recipe in the oven for cooking or bake a meringue in the microwave, it turns out to be very tasty. In the mass ready for baking, the preparation of which is described in the first recipe, you need to add finely chopped figs and dates, which will give the dessert an unusual taste.